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All results from a given calculation for HCOOHH2O (Formic acid water dimer)

using model chemistry: PBEPBEultrafine/6-31+G**

19 10 17 12 22

States and conformations

State Conformation minimum conformation conformer description state description
1 1 yes C1 1A
Energy calculated at PBEPBEultrafine/6-31+G**
 hartrees
Energy at 0K-265.942844
Energy at 298.15K-265.947862
Counterpoise corrected energy-265.941195
CP Energy at 298.15K-265.946140
Counterpoise optimized geometry corrected energy 
CP opt. Energy at 298.15K 
Nuclear repulsion energy124.152540
The energy at 298.15K was derived from the energy at 0K and an integrated heat capacity that used the calculated vibrational frequencies.
Vibrational Frequencies calculated at PBEPBEultrafine/6-31+G**
Mode Number Symmetry Frequency
(cm-1)
Scaled Frequency
(cm-1)
IR Intensities
(km mol-1)
Raman Act
4/u)
Dep P Dep U
1 A 3786 3743 81.03      
2 A 3478 3438 328.20      
3 A 3061 3026 606.67      
4 A 3003 2969 221.32      
5 A 1717 1697 311.92      
6 A 1573 1555 145.89      
7 A 1426 1409 5.10      
8 A 1337 1322 13.28      
9 A 1194 1181 193.52      
10 A 1032 1020 59.03      
11 A 957 946 87.38      
12 A 691 683 102.28      
13 A 643 636 141.49      
14 A 398 394 80.74      
15 A 311 308 111.92      
16 A 238 235 38.35      
17 A 205 203 33.24      
18 A 190 187 10.07      

Unscaled Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12618.9 cm-1
Scaled (by 0.9886) Zero Point Vibrational Energy (zpe) 12475.0 cm-1
See section III.C.1 List or set vibrational scaling factors to change the scale factors used here.
See section III.C.2 Calculate a vibrational scaling factor for a given set of molecules to determine the least squares best scaling factor.
Rotational Constants (cm-1) from geometry optimized at PBEPBEultrafine/6-31+G**
ABC
0.38436 0.17272 0.12004

See section I.F.4 to change rotational constant units
Geometric Data calculated at PBEPBEultrafine/6-31+G**

Point Group is C1

Cartesians (Å)
Atom x (Å) y (Å) z (Å)
H1 0.445 0.951 -0.005
O2 -0.549 1.145 0.005
O3 1.855 -0.008 -0.093
C4 -1.187 -0.028 0.010
O5 -0.657 -1.140 0.004
H6 -2.285 0.117 0.021
H7 2.502 -0.074 0.631
H8 1.274 -0.806 -0.035

Atom - Atom Distances (Å)
  H1 O2 O3 C4 O5 H6 H7 H8
H11.01321.70721.90412.36432.85562.38431.9429
O21.01322.66801.33592.28792.01833.34472.6705
O31.70722.66803.04432.75754.14390.97300.9891
C41.90411.33593.04431.23191.10753.74192.5817
O52.36432.28792.75751.23192.05673.39321.9603
H62.85562.01834.14391.10752.05674.83013.6773
H72.38433.34470.97303.74193.39324.83011.5773
H81.94292.67050.98912.58171.96033.67731.5773

picture of Formic acid water dimer state 1 conformation 1
More geometry information
Calculated Bond Angles
atom1 atom2 atom3 angle atom1 atom2 atom3 angle
H1 O2 C4 107.511 H1 O3 H7 123.299
H1 O3 H8 88.001 O2 H1 O3 156.707
O2 C4 O5 125.960 O2 C4 H6 111.041
O5 C4 H6 122.999 H7 O3 H8 107.002
Electronic energy levels
Charges, Dipole, Quadrupole and Polarizability
Charges from optimized geometry at PBEPBEultrafine/6-31+G** Charges (e)
Number Element Mulliken CHELPG AIM ESP
1 H 0.418      
2 O -0.388      
3 O -0.764      
4 C 0.268      
5 O -0.454      
6 H 0.145      
7 H 0.378      
8 H 0.397      


Electric dipole moments
Electric dipole components in Debye
(What's a Debye? See section VII.A.3)
  x y z Total
  0.740 0.187 1.378 1.576
CHELPG        
AIM        
ESP        


Electric Quadrupole moment
Quadrupole components in D Å
Primitive
 xyz
x -18.428 -1.467 3.896
y -1.467 -28.468 -0.087
z 3.896 -0.087 -24.063
Traceless
 xyz
x 7.838 -1.467 3.896
y -1.467 -7.222 -0.087
z 3.896 -0.087 -0.615
Polar
3z2-r2-1.230
x2-y210.040
xy-1.467
xz3.896
yz-0.087


Polarizabilities
Components of the polarizability tensor.
Units are Å3 (Angstrom cubed)
Change units.
  x y z
x 5.606 -0.214 0.084
y -0.214 5.023 0.029
z 0.084 0.029 3.108


<r2> (average value of r2) Å2
<r2> 0.000
(<r2>)1/2 0.000